What was the diet craze in the 80s?: From Low-Fat Mania to Cabbage Soup
                                
                                
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                                Following a 1977 U.S. Senate committee report, fat was widely demonized, leading to a surge in "low-fat" products. So, **what was the diet craze in the 80s**? The era was dominated by a fear of dietary fat, resulting in a host of restrictive and often nutritionally dubious fad diets that promised rapid weight loss.